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Words Alone Lite – Education Game Review
Words Alone Lite is a Education/Board/Word game from Gano Technologies LLC, first launched in 21st December 2011.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 45+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Words Alone Lite Stand Out
— The Lite Version of Words Alone has 21 letter tiles per game instead of the full 101 tiles —
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THE ULTIMATE SOLITARY WORD GAME!
Now includes updated graphics for the new iPad's retina display!
Addictively fun game play that will keep you coming back for more! Words Alone is a tile-based game that can be played at any time; no waiting for anyone else to take a turn and no data connection required.
The objective is simple: use every letter in the game by consecutively building words horizontally and vertically while trying to earn as many points as possible. But don’t let this simplicity fool you– keen strategy is needed to continually improve your personal high score or top your friends’ score.
The game board features letter and word multiplier bonus squares scattered throughout; cover multiple bonuses in one play to really rack up the points!
Feature Highlights:
- Easy to use tap and drag zoom-able game board interface
- Polished high-resolution graphics
- Personal high scores list
- 23 different in-game achievements!
- Two Game Center leader boards (High Score and Wins) allow you to show-off your skills
- Many customization options to control sound levels and auto-zooming behavior
- Supports background music so you can listen to your favorite tunes while playing
- Tracks different statistics such as total wins, best play, total words formed, as well as a running average of points per play
- High contrast letter tiles for enhanced readability
- Exciting in-game animations and bonuses
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Universal app that runs seamlessly on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad
This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Words Alone Lite is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th November 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Updated dictionary based on all the great suggestions
- Improved iOS 11 compatibility
- Bug fixes
Download & Availability
Words Alone Lite is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Words Alone Lite on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
But where has the leaderboard gone.
This is a great way to relax and take the burdens from us.
Fun game and we don't have to wait for anyone else to take s turn.
We're not a big game player so we like that we can play this brain-stimulating game (quietly) whenever we have a few minutes to spare. Fun and addicting! We just wish it let you play more letters like a real game.
Enjoy this game very much try to use all the letters but sometimes can't. Still lots of fun.
We really enjoy this game!! Great.
It's a challenge with only so many letters but we like a challenge. Love that there are no ads.
It is a really fun game but sometimes it gives us a Q but not a U so we can't even make word.
This is an enjoyable short form of Scrabble, with enough variety to offer some strategy options even in the short game. Good to play when you have 5 minutes or so to keep the Scrabble muscles in training.
This game is great! We especially like how quick the game is.
A quick entertaining diversion . Fun and challenging enough to avoid boredom.
This is a fun and mindful game for all ages, especially kids. :().
We LOVE this game. It is quick, easy to play and very addicting- in a great way.
Enjoying very much. Just started playing. Good for the brain.
A challenge and a joy for a word smith. Move as fast or as slow as you want. Try never to swap out letters and see if you can use all the letters. Compete with your own scores! In addition to using all the letters, try to place high scoring letters on the tiles that double or triple your scores. A free game with lots of thinking. Love it.
It really cool and it makes u think hard.
Hours or fun. Even though you only get 14 letters to play with. Good challenge.
This is great that you don't have to wait forever for others to respond with a word like it :).
We are a bananagrams fan first but this helps us be able to play any time we have a spare minute. Quick, informative, entertaining, and fun.
We absolutely love this. Now we can practice our scrabble game by ourselves. It keeps our brain active and improves our vocabulary skills. We lead rather a solitary life and am the only full time resident in our community for 9 months out of the year. This and high speed Internet have really improved the quality of our life.
It's quick and fun, and helps with brain use.
Word lite is great makes you focus and strategize we even got our 80 year old mom to try it was fascinating to her especially since she wanted to beat our scores.
Fun. Keeps the mind ticking, trying to find a spot for that last tile! Their dictionary is…….a little different than ours…..SUV a word??? Well, ok.
While this game is decent in its own right, we question whether the letters you get is truly random. It seems at times the letters received are calculated based on the word you create and where on the board you put it.
This could be a fun and quick little game! The problem we have is with getting the same letters over and over. Hard to get a fun mix of letters. We know this will sometimes be the case, but MOST of the time.
Only 12 tiles but so far so good.
Good, fast game when filling time at drs waiting room etc.
It seems as if it could become a great game. At this point, though, it seems Very Limited when it comes to possibilities for use with only 12 letters & such a small framework in which to play. One cannot even get a strategy in place, but the game is over already! It does have potential, however, if one weren't going to be dealt all vowels or all consonants; and that "informative" notice of where you are among players only serves to cause frustration-one doesn't need to know every minute! If there is a need to know, just go to the menu.
This free version doesn't provide enough of a sample to know if the full game would be enjoyable. Good start, but not enough challenge or information to entice us to purchase the full version. It would be better if the game played against you possibly.
Can't tell whether it's good or not with so few letters.
We realize this is only the trial version, but how do the devs expect us to have a fair chance to try this game out with a mere 12 letters? But even more frustrating than that is the fact that the letter you are trying to place on the board has a sixteen tile shadow around the letter!!! Sure makes it rather difficult to place the letter on the correct tile, especially since your finger covers the letter itself so all you can see is a 16 tile shadow over the board!!! Weird!! We think we'll just drop this word game into the trash can and go back to Scrabble, which is almost identical to this game but has a lot more bells and whistles to it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.1
- Size: 18.73 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Gano Technologies LLC
Last updated: 11th November 2017 | Genre: Education, Board | Developer: Gano Technologies LLC